Safety and Security Education and Research 2008: Agenda: Panels

Friday, October 31st
10:10am - 11:00am

Guiding Questions:
How do the stakeholders identify critical needs for gathering credible information during a crisis?

Does our region have a common understanding of our ability to cope with and recover from a disaster?

What steps are needed in the next 24 months to build a common view of "regional safety and security"?

What coordination mechanisms, such as the Area Maritime Security Committee, exist in the region to help foster cooperation and coordination, and how can we use them most effectively?

Mary Ann Chapman, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Seattle, Planning and Readiness Staff (Moderator)
Since 2003, Mary Ann Chapman has worked in contingency planning and readiness at USCG Sector Seattle (formerly Marine Safety Office Puget Sound), where she specializes in outreach to maritime community stakeholders. Most recently, Mary Ann coordinated development of the Puget Sound Port-Wide Risk Plan for Risk Management and Mitigation, Resiliency, and Resumption of Trade for the Area Maritime Security Committee. In addition, she is responsible for Sector Seattle natural disaster planning and exercise. She coordinates all Coast Guard force multiplication provided by Coast Guard Auxiliarists for Sector Seattle.

Earlier in Ms. Chapman's career, she founded and operated businesses in the areas of information technology, Internet marketing, technology transfer, electric vehicle manufacturing, and environmental tourism, and provided business strategy consulting to a variety of firms. She was elected president of a national trade organization, chaired a government-funded public-private commission on energy efficiency and sustainable development, and served on national standards and safety boards.

Eric E. Holdeman, Principal, ICF International, Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Eric Holdeman joined ICF International in 2007 and is a Principal, serving in the Emergency Management and Homeland Security Practice. His areas of expertise include building regional coalitions between agencies, governments, the private sector and non-profits. Regional planning, Emergency Operations Center (EOC) design and construction, multi-media public education programs, Joint Information Center (JIC) formation and operations, media relations, and integration of technology into emergency management and homeland security programs. In March 2007 he was recognized by Government Technology Magazine as one of the Top 25 people in the nation who, "Challenge convention, confront entrenched bureaucracy and promote innovation." Eric has a blog at www.disaster-zone.com. He has also authored numerous articles for professional journals and opinion pieces for local, regional and national newspapers. And, he is a columnist for Emergency Management Magazine, "Eric's Corner" where he writes about emergency management and homeland security topics. Prior to joining ICF he was a local emergency management director for King County Washington.

Chris Wade, Technology Associates/CTO
Since October 2001, Chris Wade has been the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Technology Associates. His direct responsibilities include managing programs for Navy, Marine Corp, and SPAWAR facilities services. As part of Technology Associates, he founded One Clear Picture (OCP); a cutting-edge service solution that is trademarked for its consolidation of Intellectual Property (IP). OCP leverages location intelligence, Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and data visualization as core components. OCP is in use at all Navy Regional Operations Centers worldwide for emergency management. OCP is also used by the DoD for ordnance handling, logistics, and solid waste management.

Nancy Bickford, Special Assistant to the Director, Washington Military Department
Nancy Bickford is the Special Assistant to the Director, Washington Military State Department. The department is the principle agency for Emergency Management, Homeland Security Advisor and the Washington National Guard. Nancy holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington and a MBA from Babson College, Wellesley, MA. She spent twenty-three years on active duty in the U.S. Army as a logistician (supply, maintenance, transportation), commanded two missile maintenance companies (Germany and Hawaii), a corps support battalion (Ft. Lewis, WA) and completed active duty as the Deputy Chief of Staff of I Corps and Ft. Lewis in 2000. Since 2000 she has been a Washington State manager and currently her role as the Special Assistant is agency legislative, strategic planning, performance management and policy areas. In support of the director she has facilitated the 2010 Olympics Security Committee for the last four years.

Wendy Freitag, Corporate Relations Manager, Washington Emergency Division
Wendy began working in her a newly created position as Special Consultant-Corporate Relations for Washington Emergency Management division in June 2007 after spending almost a decade working in emergency planning/business continuity/physical security roles in private industry.

Wendy left Microsoft Corporation early in 2007 serving as their International Physical Security Manager her last two years of her four years at the company. Prior to joining Microsoft, Wendy served as Vice President of Business Continuity Planning for Washington Mutual Bank.

During her 4+ years with Washington Mutual and her four years with Microsoft, Wendy acquired first hand response experience managing a multitude of diverse emergency events including the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle - 1999, Nisqually earthquake Seattle - 2001, September 11th, the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Iraq War & SARS Outbreak of 2003, the SE Tsunami 2004 and the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006.

Guiding Questions:
What processes, tools, and technologies are emerging to alter collaborative decision environments?

How will research flow to decision makers?

How will raw data be transformed into knowledge that leaders can use to take action?

What are the most urgent priorities for improving information flow to analysts and leaders?

Kristin Cook, Partnerships Coordinator, National Visualization and Analytics Center; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Moderator)
Kris Cook is the Coordinator of the Regional Visualization and Analytics Centers (RVACs) and Partnerships Coordinator for the National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC). She has led research and development efforts in information visualization and visual analytics for over ten years. She led the development of the initial version of the IN-SPIRE visual information analysis software, which is now in use in both government and commercial industry. She is co-editor of Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics, published in 2005 by IEEE Press.

LCDR Steven Wheeler, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Seattle; Chief, Joint Harbor Operations Center
LCDR Wheeler originally hails from in Sanford, Florida. He holds a BA in Management from Charter Oak State College, New Britain, CT and is currently working on a Masters in Management from American Military University. He joined the U. S. Coast Guard in 1989 and has completed tours of duty on both coasts and twice in Alaska. LCDR Wheeler is currently assigned as the Chief of the Puget Sound Joint Harbor Operations Center in Seattle, WA.

Phillip Fawcett, Microsoft Research and University of Washington PhD candidate
Phil Fawcett has worked in the computer-science industry since the early 1980s. During this time as a corporate controller turned IT manager, he planned and implemented manual-to-automated system conversions for small-and medium-sized businesses in manufacturing, land and building management, and large-scale construction.

Since joining Microsoft in 1984, Fawcett has held positions as a support engineer, test lead, and test manager and helped ship more than 25 products, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Works for Apple and Windows operating systems, and Microsoft Project for Windows. He also served as a supportability program manager, technical evangelist for Windows hardware platforms, and regional call-center manager. He is currently a principal research program manager doing technology transfer from the research work of 850 Microsoft researchers worldwide into the Microsoft Windows and Mobile and embedded product divisions.

Mark Polyak, Vice President, Veratect Corporation
Mark G. Polyak is a VP for Situational Awareness at Veratect Corporation. Prior to joining Veratect, he was responsible for developing and facilitating the analytical requirements, architecture, and methodological framework for project Argus, a nationally recognized effort at open-source global disease surveillance. His areas of expertise include biodefense, counterterrorism and drug smuggling in Central Asia and the Middle East, and foreign and domestic policies of Middle Eastern States. In addition, Mr. Polyak has worked at United States Institute of Peace and Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and has consulted for a number of US federal agencies, including NGA and DOD. Mr. Polyak brings years of experience in Indications and Warnings Analysis Community, as well as extensive academic research on Central Asian terrorism, Former Soviet Union's demography, healthcare, labor migration and oil exploration trends. Mr. Polyak currently teaches classes on situational awareness at University of Washington with previous lecturing experience at George Washington and Georgetown universities.

Professor Apurva Jain, Associate Professor, Supply Chain Management, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Apurva Jain is an associate professor at the Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle. His areas of expertise are supply chain management, logistics, operations management and business process management. His research focuses on analytical modeling of product-flow and information linkages in supply chains and their redesign to reduce costs and increase service levels. His earlier work has focused on modeling and managing of variability in manufacturer-retailer systems, dual channel supply chains, and information sharing in supply chains. Some of the current projects include: continuous replenishment policies for short life-cycle products; adoption of RFID technology in warehousing industry; logistics models for rental businesses; and analysis of quality specifications in supply contracts.

He teaches supply chain management and operations management courses in the full-time and evening MBA programs at the Foster School of Business. He enjoys travelling to China and India for conducting training programs and presenting his research at professional conferences. He is currently working on a Unilever-sponsored project on retail supply chains in Europe.

Guiding Questions:
What are the most effective ways to make middle and high school students aware of opportunities in national security education and research?

How do schools and universities encourage alumni and award recipients to keep us informed of their future career choices?

Should universities and community colleges be collaborating more effectively with partners and stakeholders to create high-demand educational opportunities?

What will a career in national security or regional security look like, and what are the academic opportunities needed for undergraduates and graduates, and for mid-career and advanced career professionals?

Ian Moncaster, President and CEO of the World Affairs Council (Moderator)
Ian H. Moncaster is currently the President and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Puget Sound. Prior to joining the World Affairs Council, Ian spent over 10 years living and working overseas in a variety of sectors including international relief and development, foreign policy, and diplomatic relations.

From 1985-1991, Ian headed projects for the international relief and development organization CARE, first in Bangladesh as the Project Coordinator for the Rural Maintenance Program and then in Haiti managing the Haiti Food Program. After leaving CARE in 1991, Ian spent two years in Sri Lanka as the Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance Advisor to the Canadian Government.

In 1993, Ian moved to the United States and rejoined CARE, spending the next eight years in organizational and fiscal management. Most recently, he joined the World Affairs Council in 2001 as President and CEO to promote international understanding and discussion in the Puget Sound area.

Jeffrey Kim, Director, Institute for National Security Education and Research; Information School, University of Washington
Dr. Kim is the director of the Institute for National Security Education and Research (INSER) at the Information School of the University of Washington. INSER is designated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) as an Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence. Dr. Kim is a faculty member of the Information School. Dr. Kim received a PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Kim's research investigates the ongoing relationship among information technologies, work practices, and organizational structure. He has conducted field studies on the role of technology for distributed teams and their collaboration and knowledge-sharing practices in the semiconductor and aerospace industries as well as scientists in biotechnology and medicine. Dr. Kim has collaborated with industry partners including Intel, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Fourth Wall Studios, and Samsung. Currently, he is examining the social and technological aspects of boundary-spanning collaboration in online communities.

Kelly O. Sullivan, Ph.D., Director, Institutional Partnerships, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Dr. Sullivan joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in August of 2001, and now leads the Laboratory's Office of Institutional Partnerships in the Office of the Deputy Director for Science and Technology. She is responsible for developing and maintaining collaborations and partnerships with colleges, universities and other research institutions that help the laboratory achieve its missions for the nation and the world. Prior to coming to PNNL, she was a chemistry professor at Mankato State University in Minnesota and at Creighton University in Nebraska. She serves on the Governing Board of the Council for Chemical Research, on the Board of Directors for Sigma Xi, and was a member of the National Innovation Initiative team assembled by the Council on Competitiveness, among other national leadership roles. Sullivan received a B.S. in chemistry from Christian Brothers College and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Texas Tech University.

Matthew Ouimet, Director of Analytic Effectiveness, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State
Matthew Ouimet is Director of Analytic Effectiveness in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR). In this capacity he is responsible for a range of programs that includes analytic standards, evaluation, and interagency collaboration. He also coordinates the INR Tradecraft Series, a weekly continuing education seminar that fosters excellence, expertise, and accuracy among State Department analysts. Dr. Ouimet has been an analyst of Russian foreign policy in INR's Office of Analysis for Russia and Eurasia for nearly seven years. Prior to his work at the State Department, Dr. Ouimet was a lecturer in Russian History and International Affairs at the University of Washington and Columbia College. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy, published by the University of North Carolina Press. He holds a Masters Degree in International Affairs and a Ph.D. in Modern Russian History from the University of Washington.

Dr. Michael Campbell, Director, Center of Excellence for Homeland Security, State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Mike currently serves as the Director of the Washington State's Community and Technical College Center of Excellence for Homeland Security. Mike has served as Director of Public Safety and on the Criminal Justice faculty. The Center of Excellence recently published the Homeland Security Trends Analysis 2007-2008, and the Center is currently partnering with state agencies to implement the Critical Incident Planning and Mapping System on college campuses. Mike retired from the Army as the Provost Marshal of Ft. Lewis, and has over 35 years of combined law enforcement, fire and emergency management experience. He is a graduate of the Army's National War College, the Northwest Executive Law Enforcement Command College; received a B.S. in Police Administration and Psychology and his M.S. in Criminal Justice Education from Eastern Kentucky University.

Guiding Questions:
How do universities protect the principles of academic freedom while conducting research related to intelligence and national security?

What are the responsibilities of the university and college systems to ensure that grants and contracts do not undermine the commitment to open dialogue, open debate, and equal access to education on the college or university campus?

How do universities allow faculty, students, and staff to have a voice in decisions related to research funding for national security and intelligence-related work?

Professor Mark Haselkorn, Director, Pacific Rim Visualization and Analytics Center; Director, Interdisciplinary Program on Humanitarian Relief; Chair, Faculty Research Council and Interdisciplinary Committee on Safety and Security Research and Education; President, IEEE Professional Communication Society; Department of Technical Communication, College of Engineering, University of Washington (Moderator)
Dr. Mark Haselkorn is founding chair of the Department of Technical Communication in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington, directs the Pacific Rim Visualization and Analytics Center (PARVAC), and also founded and directs the UW's Interdisciplinary Program in Humanitarian Relief. Dr. Haselkorn has led an NSF initiative on the emerging frontier of "Humanitarian Service Science & Engineering." He has worked with the military on a number of projects, including the integration of DoD and VA electronic medical records and the Air Force's strategic management of ICT under the threat of Y2K (a study published by the National Research Council). He has conducted foundational research in the area of intelligent transportation systems, managing projects totaling over $3M, including development of the first Web-based real-time traveler information system (Traffic Reporter, 1990). Dr. Haselkorn is currently the President of the IEEE Professional Communication Society, Chair of the University of Washington's Faculty Council on Research, and Chair of the recently established Interdisciplinary Committee on Safety and Security Research and Education.

Ambassador Thomas Graham, Executive Chairman, Thorium Power Ltd.
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. is the Executive Chairman of the Board of Thorium Power, a company which holds patents on a new type of nuclear power fuel based on thorium and which is located in McLean, Virginia. Thorium Power is a U.S. funded company, which conducts its research and development work at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow.

Internationally known as one of the leading authorities in the field of international arms control and non-proliferation agreements designed to limit and to combat the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, Ambassador Graham has served as a senior U.S. diplomat involved in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement during the period 1970-1997. This includes The Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT Treaties), The Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START Treaties), The Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Extension (NPT), Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Gregory Witkop M.D., Special Agent, FBI; National Security Research and Technology Protection; Academic Alliance Coordinator
Dr. Witkop began his career in public service as an Army Health Professional Scholarship winner in 1986. After graduating from medical school, he completed a General Surgery internship with honors and served as an Army Flight Surgeon where he developed an interest in Biodefense. He then completed his ophthalmology residency during which time he won the Biannual Walter Reed Research competition. After his Chief Residency, he served as a Staff ophthalmologist until he fulfilled his military obligation Following 9/11, the Army Medical Corp Motto: "To conserve the fighting strength" played a pivotal role in his decision to leave private practice as a Board Certified ophthalmologist to join the FBI's National Security Branch. He currently leads the national security research and technology protection program for Washington State and a multi-agency intelligence community biodefense initiative.

Daniel Chirot, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies and Sociology, University of Washington
Daniel Chirot is Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies and Sociology. He has authored three books on social change as well of Modern Tyrants. His most recent book, co-authored with Clark McCauley, is Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton University Press 2006). He is the editor and co-editor of Essential Outsiders, Ethnopolitical Warfare, and The Causes of Backwardness in Eastern Europe. He was founding editor of the journal East European Politics and Societies. His research has been helped by the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations, by the Social Science Research Council, and by the Institute for Human Studies in Vienna. He has consulted for the American Government, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Ford Foundation, and CARE. In 2004/05 was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace working on conflicts in Africa. He has a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Columbia.

Guiding Questions:
What progress has been made over the past several years to help regional stakeholders understand the nature of the cybersecurity risks?

How should government, industry, and university partners organize their collaboration on information assurance to produce the most effective strategies?

Are there any lessons learned or best practices in our region that need to be transferred to other regions?

Mike Simon, CISO Creation Logic, LLC(Moderator)
Mike has been working in computer security and policy development since 1985, working at the time for the University of Idaho, a regional pioneer in computer security and one of the first NSA Centers of Excellence in Information Assurance Education, Mike built the network laboratory infrastructure used for the research programs that support the center and taught Senior and Graduate courses in networking and network topology.

Currently, Mike lectures at University of Washington, Seattle University, University of Idaho and several civic organizations on the subject of information assurance and computer security. He sits on the advisory board for the Information Assurance certificate program for the University of Washington, the technical advisory board for Goldfish Holdings, inc., the Advisory Board for the Computer Science Department at the University of Idaho and on the Founders Board for the Information School at the University of Washington.

Erin Klunder, InfraGard Coordinator, FBI Seattle

Todd Plesco, CISM, CBCP; Compliance Security Officer, Public Health - Seattle & King County
Todd Plesco is the Public Health – Seattle & King County's Compliance Security Officer, where he is responsible for assuring the privacy and security for the over 1.8 million King County citizens' personally identifiable health information records in locations varying in range from the numerous health clinics around the county and specialty clinics at Harborview Hospital to the county medical examiner's office or to the vital statistics division's birth/death records.

Todd is also the president of Washington State's Chapter of InfraGard which is a public/private partnership with the FBI designed to share and educates its membership on the vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques to prevent the risks to our nation's most critical infrastructures.

David S. Behar, Senior Manager of Security and Emergency Management, Snohomish County Public Utilities District
David is the Senior Manager of Security and Emergency Management for Public Utility District #1 of Snohomish County, the largest PUD in Washington State and the twelfth largest consumer-owned electric utility in the United States. In that capacity he is responsible for enterprise security as well business continuity for a utility that serves over 350,000 electric and water customers. David has twenty five years of experience in the electric utility industry, the last fifteen of which have been with Snohomish PUD in a variety of managerial and senior managerial positions.

David is a member of ASIS, ATAP, AGORA, InfraGard, NWWARN, is a graduate of the FBI Citizen's Academy and the WSECC (Western States Energy Coordination Council) Security Committee.

Guiding Questions:
How is the university research community partnering to explore some of the greatest national security research challenges facing the nation?

What models for partnerships and collaborations offer the greatest promise of expanding the research agenda and its impact on community stakeholders?

What barriers to cooperation need to be eliminated in the coming several years?

How will sponsors and researcher begin to measure the impact of their research on a community's resiliency in the face of disaster?

Professor Mark Haselkorn, Director, Pacific Rim Visualization and Analytics Center; Director, Interdisciplinary Program on Humanitarian Relief; Chair, Faculty Research Council and Interdisciplinary Committee on Safety and Security Research and Education; President, IEEE Professional Communication Society; Department of Technical Communication, College of Engineering, University of Washington (Moderator)
Dr. Mark Haselkorn is founding chair of the Department of Technical Communication in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington, directs the Pacific Rim Visualization and Analytics Center (PARVAC), and also founded and directs the UW's Interdisciplinary Program in Humanitarian Relief. Dr. Haselkorn has led an NSF initiative on the emerging frontier of "Humanitarian Service Science & Engineering." He has worked with the military on a number of projects, including the integration of DoD and VA electronic medical records and the Air Force's strategic management of ICT under the threat of Y2K (a study published by the National Research Council). He has conducted foundational research in the area of intelligent transportation systems, managing projects totaling over $3M, including development of the first Web-based real-time traveler information system (Traffic Reporter, 1990). Dr. Haselkorn is currently the President of the IEEE Professional Communication Society, Chair of the University of Washington's Faculty Council on Research, and Chair of the recently established Interdisciplinary Committee on Safety and Security Research and Education.

Daniel J. Dailey, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
Dr. Daniel J. Dailey is a research track Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. He also serves as the Director of the Intelligent Transportation Systems program in the College of Engineering. He has published over 100 technical papers and reports on a variety of topics including: GIS, GPS, distributed computing, modeling of stochastic processes, computer vision, data fusion, and ITS systems as well as distance learning. He is co-author of a book titled "Wireless Communication for Intelligent Transportation Systems," and is a past president of the IEEE ITS Council. Recently he has been working in data fusion and visualization with the PARVAC Center of Excellence in the College of Engineering.

David S. Ebert, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, Purdue University Regional Visualization and Analytics Center; Purdue University
David Ebert is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, a University Faculty Scholar, Director of the Purdue University Rendering and Perceptualization Lab (PURPL), and Director of the Purdue University Regional Visualization and Analytics Center (PURVAC), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security's Regional Visualization and Analytics Center of Excellence. Dr. Ebert performs research in novel visualization techniques, visual analytics, volume rendering, information visualization, perceptually-based visualization, illustrative visualization, and procedural abstraction of complex, massive data. Ebert has been very active in the visualization community, teaching courses, presenting papers, co-chairing many conference program committees, serving on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee, serving as Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, serving as a member of the IEEE Computer Society's Publications Board, serving on the National Visualization and Analytics Center's National Research Agenda Panel, and successfully managing a large program in external funding to develop more effective methods for visually communicating information.

David Jones, Department Head, Environmental and Information Systems, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
David Jones is the Head of Environmental and Information Systems (EIS) Department at the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington (APL-UW). EIS, the largest department at APL-UW, is composed of over 40 scientists and engineers who are involved in basic and applied research that focus on the flow of information, from the sensor in the environment to its use by a decision maker, and includes new methods of data collection, signal processing, information analysis, numerical modeling, and information visualization. In his own research, he has studied decision-making in settings affected by the physical environment. His research team develops cognitive engineering solutions for meteorology and oceanography applications. Prior to his position at APL-UW, he served as a U.S. Navy officer for twenty-one years, specializing in operational meteorology and oceanography. His last position in the Navy was as the Director of Operations at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, Monterey, CA.

Suzanne Weghorst, Interim Director, Human Interface Technology Lab, University of Washington
Suzanne Weghorst is a Senior Principal Research Scientist and currently Interim Director of the UW's Human Interface Technology Lab (HIT Lab). With an academic background in experimental psychology and computer science, she has lead interface research and development teams in several areas, including core virtual reality human factors research, situational awareness, medical informatics, surgical simulation, haptic and multimodal interface, and augmented/mixed reality applications. Weghorst is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Virtual Reality and a recipient of the 2001 Satava Award for her work in medical interface research and development. She has been a PARVAC co-investigator since its inception, and is currently the project lead in developing PARVAC's RimSim distributed emergency response research platform.

Guiding Questions:
What types of cooperative research and education have the potential to have the greatest positive impact on our region’s resiliency in the near term (within 3 years) and over the longer term (looking ahead 5 years)?

How would the panel members evaluate our region’s readiness to cope with different types of threats – an earthquake, an oil spill, or a terrorist act along the waterfront?

What models for cooperation are being used in other regions nationally that might be appropriate for our region? And how can the work in our region be used to benefit other regions?

Michael Mitchell, Director, Homeland Security Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Moderator)
As Director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Programs at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Michael Mitchell has responsibility for more than $125 million in programs that bring together multi-disciplinary teams best suited to address DHS's critical science and technology needs.

When DHS was newly formed, Mitchell was assigned for 18 months as the Deputy Director of Office Plans, Programs and Budgets in the Science and Technology Directorate. In this role, he was responsible for all financial, budgetary and administrative activities. He also served as a key member of White House's Homeland Security Transition Planning Office whose primary mission was to create a national homeland-security scientific R&D strategy.

Prior to his assignment as Director of the DHS Programs, Mitchell managed the Project Management Support Department at PNNL where he was responsible for organizational planning, and staff acquisitions.

Steve Stein, Director, Northwest Regional Technology Center for Homeland Security, Pacific Northwest National Lab
As the Director of the NW Regional Technology Center (NWRTC) Mr. Stein works with regional federal officials, state and local emergency management professionals in 11 western states and Guam to accelerate technology and policy development and deployment of new technologies. The NWRTC works with states and urban areas to define their technology needs and priorities to influence federal R&D agenda and support state and local grant applications. The NWRTC also manages programs in partnership with regional professionals to test and evaluate new technologies and support early deployment of new solutions.

Robin Friedman, Director, King County Office of Emergency Management
Robin Friedman is the Director of King County's Office of Emergency Management. Previously, he served as Director of Security and Emergency Management for Seattle Public Utilities, and has participated in a wide variety of emergency management efforts, both locally and nationally. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Robin served sixteen years in the United States Army before honorably retiring in 1996. As Director of King County Emergency Management, he is committed to effective collaboration with city and county departments and other regional partners to enhance emergency management coordination and readiness capabilities. Robin leads a team of 14 program managers, administrative staff, and communication professionals. Together, they are dedicated to building and maintaining a regional approach to emergency preparedness, planning, mitigation, and response during disasters and catastrophes.

CAPT Stephen P. Metruck, U.S. Coast Guard Fellow to the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group
Captain Stephen Metruck is currently the Coast Guard Fellow on the Chief of Naval Operation’s Strategic Studies Group located at the Naval War College in Newport, RI.

Metruck served as Commander, Sector Seattle from 2005 - 2008, where he led the Sector through its early years and was the Captain of the Port, Federal Maritime Security Coordinator, Federal on Scene Coordinator for Oil Spills and Hazardous Substances, and the Officer in Charge of Marine Inspection. He was the lead Federal Official on maritime safety and maritime homeland security issues throughout Puget Sound.

From 2001 to 2004, Captain Metruck served as the Commanding Officer of the Marine Safety Office in San Diego, CA, where he also served as Captain of the Port. He has also worked at Marine Safety Office Tampa, FL and Buffalo, NY.

In addition, Captain Metruck has served as a Congressional Fellow on the staff of Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, as the Coast Guard Liaison to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and as a Military Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Captain Metruck is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy with a B.S. in Ocean Engineering and holds a graduate degree in public administration from Harvard University.